Tagged Classical

It is officially finals season here at UC  Berkeley, and sometimes it seems the only thing tougher than finding a free seat in one of Berkeley’s twenty-seven libraries is choosing the soundtrack to your stud...

In Western classical music, notation looks like quarter notes, eighth notes, and maybe a few triplets if you’re feeling funky. However, Western classical music is not the only type of classical music. Essenti...

Hans Zimmer. John Williams.  Alan Menken: These are all composers that most people know off of the top of our heads when it comes to film scores. These men are the powerhouse of the movie music industry, and a...

From two internationally-respected artists proven limitless in both time and place comes Ifé, an orchestral illustration of the Yorùbán creation land and holy city. The collaboration between visionary co...

April 13 UK quartet Clean Bandit played at San Francisco's Regency Ballroom, bringing a club night vibe and unreal energy to the venue despite coming straight from a wild set at Coachella. Having interviewe...

Clean Bandit are just blowing up internationally. With their recently won Grammy and success of New Eyes (2014), they are getting more and more renowned throughout the world. The album’s fourth single ...

This weekend, Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas leads the San Francisco Symphony in three performances of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale) with Elvis Costello as narrator. The Sol...

On October 23, San Francisco Symphony concertmaster Alexander Barantschik, Principal Second Violin Dan Carlson, and Principal Keyboard Robin Sutherland starred as soloists at the Davies Symphony Hall in a p...

Few experiences rival that of bearing witness to a beautifully played piano recital. Fewer still rival that of hearing a near-perfect interpretation of a composer’s artistic vision. No experience, however,...

"The Muir". Credit: Richard Termine. Dance can be funny and whimsical, idiosyncratic and beautiful -- characteristics overlooked or under-appreciated by today’s audiences, particularly by college studen...

Duality is everywhere: Adam and Eve, light and dark, land and sea, good and evil... the list goes on. With that in mind, we ventured into The Australian Ballet’s performance of Swan Lake and the Berkele...

In 1676, Sir Isaac Newton wrote in a letter: 'If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants'. A concept perhaps made relatively more colloquial by physicist Stephen Hawking in 2002, i...

For a group of former students, Cambridge, England’s Clean Bandit went from 0 to 100 real quick. The four-piece (plus-two live) stopped in San Francisco for about twelve hours yesterday in the midst of their...

The UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra performed works by two classical warhorses on Saturday in Hertz Hall. The show featured Dvořák's truly American “From the New World” symphony and Stravinsky’s riotou...

Friday, September 13, the UC Berkeley Department of Music will sponsor its annual noon concert series at Hertz Concert Hall, located next to the Faculty Club on campus. Open to student and community members,...